Podcast: Meghan Murphy from Feminist Current talks with Jill Ovens
Meghan Murphy, a writer and journalist from Vancouver BC is the founder of Feminist Current. Feminist Current provides a unique perspective on gender, women’s rights, violence against women, pop culture, politics, current events, sexuality, and many other issues that are often underrepresented or misrepresented by mainstream, progressive, and feminist media sources. Meghan talks to Jill
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Events: North Island Meeting and First Inaugural National Conference
Regional Meeting Members from the Upper North Island are warmly invited to attend our first regional meeting. This will be a great opportunity for you to meet other members of the Women’s Rights Party and to elect regional convenors to represent Auckland, Northland, Waikato and Bay of Plenty on the Women’s Rights Party Council. Janet
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Let’s put candidates on the spot on women’s rights
Voters should ask their candidates whether they agree that biological males should not compete in women’s or girls’ sports where there are issues of fairness and/or safety, for example in contact sport.
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Turn Up For Women
We chose the tagline of ‘We can’t always act up, we can’t always speak up, but we can always turn up’ as a nod to the cancelling of women’s voices at Auckland’s Albert Park and the subsequent decision to cancel the Let Women Speak Wellington event
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Why We Created The Women’s Rights Party
The Women’s Rights Party can be the catalyst for the mobilisation of the women of Aotearoa New Zealand to defend and extend their rights to live and flourish as women in a country that respects and upholds their right to do so.
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United Nations statement on women’s right to speak without fear
UN issues Statement on right of women and girls to speak on sex, gender and gender identity without intimidation or fear The Women’s Rights Party welcomes today’s statement by Reem Alsalem, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls. In the statement, Alsalem states that “threats and intimidation against women expressing their opinions
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What Women Want
The newly founded Women’s Rights Party is hoping that tomorrow the Government will address issues that continue to challenge women across Aotearoa New Zealand. Women’s Rights Party National Secretary, Jill Ovens, says from childcare to paid maternity leave, pay equity to funding for women’s health priorities, women need the Government to step up and start
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Quality affordable childcare a huge issue for women
The newly founded Women’s Rights Party is pleased to hear of the campaign launch for a Fair Pay Agreement for early childhood educators (ECE teachers) and other staff. Women’s Rights Party national secretary Jill Ovens says currently only registered ECE teachers are being paid in line with other teachers due to a subsidy paid by
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